This is a stove or greenhouse plant, and requires aloam and peat soil. Cuttings of the ripe wood strike freely.
The flowers are both beautiful and curiously formed, but theplants have a stinging property. They grow well in any loamy soil, and are easily increased by seed sown in spring. Flow...
Cuttings of this greenhouse herbaceous plant may bestruck in autumn, though they are usually taken from the old plants in spring. Insert them singly in 4-1/2-in. pots filled with c...
There are several varieties of thisornamental hardy annual grass. Briza Gracillis is slender, and very pretty both in a green and dried state. Briza Maxima bears large and handsome...
Great care should be taken not to allow the sunto strike on the collar of any of the plants from California, as they readily succumb if it does so.
This palm furnishes Cahoun nuts, from which is extracted cohune oil, used as a burning oil, for which purpose it is superior to cocoanut oil. Piassaba fiber is furnished by this an...
Dig the ground out to a depth of 1 ft. or 15 in.; put ina layer of leaf-mould or rotted manure, and then 4 or 5 in. of earth mixed with sand; insert the bulbs (6 in. from the surfa...
In warm districts these beautiful plants may be grownin damp places out of doors, with a south aspect and a background of shrubs, though, not being thoroughly hardy, it is safer to...
Require a deep, rich, heavy soil. Where the ground is notsuitable it should have had a good dressing of rotten manure the previous autumn, and left in ridges during the winter. Lev...
Anchusa Capensis is best raised in a frame and treated asa greenhouse plant, though in reality it is a hardy perennial. The annual and biennial kinds succeed well if sown in the op...
Plant out of doors from September to December, in asunny, sheltered position, in light, rich, sandy soil. For indoor cultivation, plant four bulbs in a 5-in. pot in a compost of lo...
Collect the spore-fronds towards the end of summer,just as the spore-cases begin to open. Place them on a sheet of paper in a box for a few days, keeping it in a dry place. Most of...
This forms a large tree in the West India Islands, and is hollowed out for canoes; the wood is of a brown color and has a fragrant odor, and is sometimes imported under the name of...
These thrive most in a peat or bog soil, but wherethis cannot be obtained a good fertile loam, with a dressing of fresh cow manure once in two years, may be used; or leaf-mould and...
These climbing half-hardy perennialswill grow in any garden soil, a light, loamy one being preferable. Sow the seed in autumn on a slight hotbed, pot off, and winter in a greenhous...
Ornamental half-hardy annuals. The seeds of all the speciesmust be sown on a hotbed early in spring. When the plants are strong enough transplant them in the border, where they wil...
See "Aconite."
Early-flowering, showy perennials, all thriving in a moist orboggy situation. C. Leptosepala is especially choice, its pure white flowers resembling a water-lily. They may be incre...
A fine climbing plant bearing very sweetwhite flowers in June. It is rather tender, and more suitable for the conservatory than the open air. It does not make a good pot-plant, but...
A hardy herbaceous, surface-creeping perennial ofsingular beauty as regards both leaf and flower. The soil in which it is grown must be well drained, a peat one being preferable; a...
The dwarf-growing Bamboos Fortunei variegata andViridi-striata make graceful edgings to borders or paths. The whole family like a rich, loamy, damp soil.
(Japanese Hop).--A hardy annual Hop of rapidgrowth, the leaves of which are splashed with white. Useful for covering arbours, verandahs, etc. A deep, loamy soil suits it best. Incr...
This plant yields the wood called Lignum Rhodium. It also furnishes a gum resin analogous to Elemi, and supposed to yield Indian Bdellium.
A hardy annual of a rather handsome order. The seed should besown in May in a shady situation. The plant is not particular as to soil, and will flower about eight weeks after it is...
See "Cornus."
Very showy, hardy, perennial border plants.They will grow in any garden soil, and are readily raised from seed, which, if sown in the autumn, will produce flowers the following Jun...
Ornamental evergreen shrubs of a twining nature, needing agreenhouse for their cultivation. They require a rich, loamy soil mixed with a little sand, or loam and peat, and rejoice...
These slender, rapid-growing climbers are extremelypretty when in bloom during June, but they are only half-hardy; they therefore need greenhouse care, or to be planted in a warm s...
A hardy evergreen shrub, flowering in July.It thrives in sandy loam and peat. Cuttings planted in sand with a little bottom-heat and under glass will strike. Height, 6 ft.
This hardy plant bears largeleaves on stout foot-stalks, and is very ornamental in the backs of borders, etc. Planted in a rich, moist soil, it will flower in August. It can be pro...